Medicine and the saints : science, Islam, and the colonial encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956 / Ellen J. Amster ; foreword by Rajae El Aoued.

Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, 2013.

xiv, 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

1st ed.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-395) and index.

Introduction: Colonial embodiments -- Healing the body, healing the umma: Sufi saints and God's law in a corporeal city of virtue -- Medicine and the mission civilisatrice: a civilizing science and the French sociology of Islam in Algeria and Morocco, 1830-1912 -- The many deaths of Dr. Émile Mauchamp: contested sovereignties and body politics at the court of the sultans, 1877-1912 -- Frédéric Le Play in Morocco? the paradoxes of French hygiene and colonial association in the Moroccan city, 1912-1937 -- Harem medicine and the sleeping child: law, traditional pharmacology, and the gender of medical authority -- A midwife to modernity: the biopolitics of colonial welfare and birthing a scientific Moroccan nation, 1936-1956 -- Epilogue. Epistemologies embodied: Islam, France, and the postcolonial.